Cordage-manufacturing apparatus



(No Model.)

H. M. BROOKS. GORDAGE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS.

Patented Oct. 4, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY M. BROOKS, OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORDAGE-MANUFACTU RING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,665, dated October 4;, 1892.

Application filed June 7, 1890. Serial No. 354 583 (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. BROOKS, of Everett, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Cordage-Manufacturing Apparatus, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my invention in its relation to old coacting parts. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, the section being vertical and taken on line Z, Fig. 1, and the View as from the left of said line. Fig. 3 is a detached vertical section taken on line X, Fig. 2, and showing the roll in end elevation.

This invention relates to means by which the respective strands of rope, after they are separately twisted and are laid in the postheads preparatory to their being made into a rope, are in requisite numbers transferred from said heads to the arms projecting from said posts preparatory to being twisted into a rope by the usual means and method.

Referring again tosaid drawings, A represents posts secured in the floor and at their upper end formed with a concave seat to receive and hold a quantity of the spun or twisted strands b, as shown, which strands are spun or twisted in a well-known manner preparatory to being twisted into a rope.

Secured in and extending from each post A is a horizontal arm 0, in each of which is secured a series of studs a, as shown. I provide the ways j j, secured to the floor, and upon them I mount the small platform 70, having wheels Z arranged on axles m, secured to platform it, so that the car will run freely back and forth on said rails j. Ierect upon 70 the standard n and extend therefrom the arm p at a height to clear studs 0,, upon which arm are the studs q, secured upon spindles 6. (See Fig. 3.) I also secure upon said arm the roll 2, the spindles whereof are journaled in the brackets w, secured to the arm, the top of the roll being slightly above the top of the arm that supports it.

The practical use of the car, with its arm having the spacing-studs, is as follows: The posts A are kept supplied with strands Z), and when a rope is to be twisted therefrom the requisite number of strands are at one end taken from posts A and placed between the studs (1 in arm 19, when the car is set in mo tion toward the opposite end of the rope-walk, and it will successively transfer the strands thus lodged between its pins from the head of post A to the spaces between the pins a in arms 0 in readiness to be twisted together as a rope. The car, in addition to its office of rapidly and cheaply transferring the strands from the head of post A to arms 0, also furnishes a quick means of transit from one end of the rope-walk to the other, when it is returned to the starting-point to take up and transfer the strands for another rope.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination with the posts A of a ropewalk formed with concave tops to receive the twisted strands b, the arms 0, extended horizontally and provided with studs a, the truck 70, formed with wheels Z, arranged to run on tracks j, arranged at one side of said posts, the arm 19, carried by said truck and arranged to pass over arms O, and the studs q, arranged in said arm to coincide with studs a in arm 0, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with carriage 7c and its arm 19, arranged to transfer strands b from posts A to arm 0, the roller t, journaled upon arm p at one side thereof, substantially as specified.

HENRY M. BROOKS.

Witnesses T. W. PORTER, EBEN HUTCHINSON, Jr. 

